Haryana hikes marriage advance for govt employees

Published: Monday, October 6, 2008, 20:32 [IST]

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Chandigarh, Oct 6 (UNI) Haryana Finance Minister Birender Singh today announced that the state government employees would now get marriage advance of Rs one lakh instead of Rs 60,000 for solemnising the marriages of their sons or daughters or legally adopted children and dependent sisters.

He said the marriage advance would be recovered in 100 monthly instalments and recovery would commence with effect from the second salary after the advance was drawn.

The second or third marriage advance would be granted to government employees as per his admissibility under each category separately.

The marriage advance would be admissible to regular class-I, II, III and IV state government employees/officers, he said.